15 inspirational quotes from history

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.” Danny Kaye

“Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.”

Ella Williams

“Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”

Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC

“To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.”

Hugh Prather

“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.”

Henry Ford

“You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?'”

George Bernard Shaw

“Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another. “

Richard Bach (Illusions)

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.”

Jesse Jackson

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”

Maya Angelou

“There is no use trying, said Alice; one can’t believe impossible things. I dare say you haven’t had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

Lewis Carroll

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. “

George Bernard Shaw

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”